Trusted Computing (a must see short movie)

The user stoeptegel posted a link (to a torrent) to a movie called “Trusted Computing”. IMHO everyone should download and watch this movie. The movie is legally free to download and it’s about 50 mb big. It’s definetely interesting to watch for geeks and non-geeks alike.

[ANIMATED, ANTI-DRM, SHORT] ‘Trusted Computing’, a Creative Commons-licensed animated short film by Benjamin Stephan and Lutz Vogel, deals with the concept of the eponymous DRM solution, arguing that, perhaps, it isn’t such a good idea after all. As Cory Doctorow at BoingBoing says, this is ‘a high-level overview of the philosophical problems with the technology. Run, don’t walk [to see it].’

www.legaltorrents.com also has (legally free) torrents of “Go Open” which is a tv series about open source software which was sponsored by Mark Shuttleworth.

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On a related note : Members of European Digital Rights (www.edri.org) have joined forces to defend civil rights in the information society. www.bof.nl is the dutch member of edri.

Is the clip available in a codec one can play on free software systems, like Ogg Theora+Vorbis?

The clip I see is a QuickTime clip, which wouldn’t be bad (QuickTime is a documented and open container format) but the codecs used within are not playable without installing proprietary and/or patent-encumbered software.

This unfortunate situation is rather common in videos meant for the free software community. People should consider transcoding their videos to free codecs or producing their videos with free codecs in the first place.

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